Readers' Views

  • Lowering a flag at Hampshire

    A fake e-mail sent to the Hampshire College community raised issues about what the American flag means to international students. May 9, 2013

  • Views in brief

    Why some deaths matter more | Pushing back against the tide of hate | Against the tide of Islamophobia | Russia's role in Syria May 7, 2013

  • Fighting to label Frankenfoods

    A proposed bill would mandate the labeling of genetically modified foods--an important protection for consumers. May 2, 2013

  • The powers behind education "reform"

    While there are differences in the education reform camp, the result for teachers and unions had been the same: disastrous. April 30, 2013

  • An appreciation of Hubert Harrison

    April 27 was the 130th anniversary of the birth of Hubert Henry Harrison, and there is still much to learn from him. April 30, 2013

  • For meaningful debate on "reform"

    My argument about the "corporate education reform" movement was profoundly mischaracterized by Socialist Worker. April 25, 2013

  • What we're told is and isn't terrorism

    In a matter of days, the U.S. was left reeling from the effects of two earthshaking explosions--in Boston and in Texas. April 23, 2013

  • The media's response to Boston

    In the struggle over how the mass media frame the news, the reactionaries and Islamophobes haven't won. April 18, 2013

  • Views in brief

    Stealing our home from us | Syria's rebels and imperialism | Where are independent Palestinian films? | Sexual assault and college profits | Fighting for port drivers' rights April 16, 2013

  • No half-measures on equality

    If we want to achieve true liberation, we have to oppose all forms of oppression and remember the slogan, "An injury to one is an injury to all." April 4, 2013

  • Views in brief

    A bill to punish poor students | Who's stopping R.I. marriage equality? | A feminist icon takes on the "dudes" | Struggling to keep my health care | Michelle Rhee's real agenda March 26, 2013

  • Comment: Paul LeBlanc

    Leninism in the wake of Occupy

    A discussion of Leninism and organization takes up questions raised by a layer of new activists in the Occupy movement. March 21, 2013

  • Forcing DeWine to address rape

    A protest at the Ohio attorney general's office came with lessons about what it will take to build the fight against sexual assault. March 19, 2013

  • Lenin's idea of party-building

    Paul LeBlanc's description of Lenin's thought on party-building differs from what a generation of working-class leaders believed. March 19, 2013

  • Leninism and organization today

    Paul LeBlanc answers a critic of Leninism in the spirit of building revolutionary organizations in the here and now. March 14, 2013

  • Acquitted but serving life in prison

    Curtis Shuler Jr. was acquitted of murder--but because of Florida law, he’s serving life without the possibility of parole. March 12, 2013

  • There's no universal model of Leninism

    What we have come to know as "Leninism" is a dead end that has blocked our own road to further success. March 12, 2013

  • The tar sands fight is the right fight

    Protests against the Keystone XL pipeline are part of the broader struggle against the energy industry's disregard for the environment. March 7, 2013

  • Hearing all voices in the movement

    If the voices of the oppressed are silenced in the name of "unity," the environmental movement will never bring about change. February 26, 2013

  • Views in brief

    Leninism’s roots in the U.S. | Oppression, privilege and women's liberation | Beaten by a Seattle cop | The end of Bread and Roses | Ending corporate "personhood" February 26, 2013

  • Views in brief

    Austin stands up to the deformers | Is Leninism alien to U.S. workers? | A distortion of Leninism | Higher wages, fewer workers? February 19, 2013

  • Views in brief

    Seeking answers in my brother's death | Racism of Chicago's trauma system | Calling attention to birthing justice | Do the Waltons care about education? | Fighting for union justice in the South February 12, 2013

  • Locating the source of oppression

    Looking at capitalism as a relationship and not a thing situates women's oppression in the social reproduction of labor. February 7, 2013

  • Views in brief

    Two Socialist Workers Party members criticize the ISO statement on their party's crisis, and an ISO member responds. February 7, 2013

  • Strategies to end oppression

    Marxists need to explain why sections of the working class that are less oppressed should support the most oppressed. February 5, 2013

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